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Alonso Mudarra

Fantasía 26, del octavo tono

 

Tres libros de música en cifra (1546), fol. II/25v

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Source title Fantasia,
Title in contents   Otra fantasia (Octauo tono)
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Music

Category abstract

Genre fantasia

Fantasia type ImP

Mode 8

Voices 4

Length (compases) 85

Vihuela

Tuning G

Courses 6

Final VI/0

Highest I/9

Lowest VI/0

Difficulty not specified

Tempo fast

Song Text

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Vocal notation

Commentary

A polythematic imitative fantasia in mode of 85 compases. It is built of straightforward imitative procedures throughout.
I – Themes 1 & 2 voice pairs A/S --> T/B (1st note vary a little) then 3 is tacked on and imitated to complete section at 24.
II – Theme 4 long in Seminima movement accompanied by Semibreve s above in one voice only. 5 follows immediately. Similar theme type, but canonically imitated to 59.
III – Theme 6 motivic cadential formula imitated ad nauseam to final K at 85.

Venegas de Henestrosa reworked this fantasia. See 1557/2, no. 71 [Anglés edition, p. 105-6, Fantasia XVII]